Basically smaller, financially weaker nations, either play by the arbitrary rules of the EU of they face restrictions/taxation on trade and other sort of petty punishments. And of course the stronger factions reserve special privileges for themselves; allowing crap like this to happen.
OS/2 Warp was made at a time when a significant part of those with the knowhow to make and support a evolving OS worked for Microsoft. Not to mention that it is known that Microsoft leveraged their situation, and growing economic capacity, to convince manufactures that adopting their OS was a good idea.
The Linux platform has a growing support base of not insignificant proportions at this point, and the Ubuntu system has proven itself to be quite robust and one of the easier implementations for new users to get a handle on. The capability to get technical help, support, documentation, and whatever else a company might need, is far different today with Ubuntu Linux than what is was for OS2 when it was introduced.
I can not predict how this will turn out in the end, but looking back and using OS2 as an example for how this will develop seems like conjecture.
My advice is just relax and enjoy it or simply find something else to watch.
Indeed. If you like something; you like it. If you don't; you don't. Arguing about details and lore for a TV show, or movie, seems like a waste of time. Of course I can understand that someone with an interest in science will find entertainment including pseudo-scientific explanations off-putting, but that goes for just about everything else. I reckon there are cops that find cop shows ridiculous, and doctors who find hospital shows ludicrous, and so on and so forth. If you enjoy something, good for you, if you don't; there is little to be gained by bashing it online. Unless of course you want to get some pats on the back from people that already agree with you. You might have your preferences, but that is all they are; your preferences.
More than once I have experienced that the on-board sound chip from Realtek causes the computer crash or have significant slowdowns. Disabling and putting in a budget soundcard fixed it. So I would suggest that disabling various on-board components in turn could uncover the culprit. That being said, identifying hardware problems have always, for me, been a bit hit and/or miss.
Windows Server will now join, trust and replicate a Samba-based Active Directory using Microsoft-native protocols. then blame all problems on Samba/Linux/OpenSource/Liberals
86% of Slashdot readers shown to not care about random statistics. 14% of those said to absolutely not give a shit, with 25% just shrugging and moving on to other topics.
I find this lawsuit fairly amusing and hypocritical; since Thompson himself claimed First Amendment protection against his critics, and then when for good measure that the criticism of him violated state religious protection laws since he was motivated by his faith.
Mister Thompson wasn't damaged by "angry postings made by Facebook gamers" he was damaged by all the stupid, unethical (and illegal) crap he did that spawned those posts. This is just a greedy lawyer who got himself disbarred through his own machinations trying to get himself a payout so he can finance his insidious campaign of ignorance and fear. Hope Facebook takes this to court and tear Mister Thompson a proverbial "new one".
You can pull your ass over to answer the phone, it's not that hard to take an extra 5 minutes to get to your destination. You never need to text while driving.
It is essential that I drive above the speed-limit and take any incoming call/text while driving; any stop or slowdown I make cuts into my masturbation time.
Second, (as Dr Strangelove pointed out) a doomsday machine only makes sense as a deterent if both sides know about it. Why wasn't the machine made public earlier when the Soviets thought that the US was about to launch an attack?
I guess because this wasn't exactly a weapon, rather a contingency system ensuring that the weapons the USSR already had (and told the world boldly that they had in massive numbers) would lunch in retaliation regardless of how, when and how massive any American attack would be.
Ground-based sensors would detect that a devastating blow had been struck and a counterattack would be launched.
So technically if someone wanted to deal a massively destructive blow to the US they could just locate one of these "ground-based sensors" inside Russia and create some sort of "devastating blow" to set the entire system off. I guess one should be relieved that certain anti-american groups haven't done so yet.
Vanish is meant to protect communication between two trusted parties, researchers say.
I guess it all comes down to what more important. If you want convenience then you're always limiting your level of security. So far there are very few ways to send encrypted messages over the internet that can not be intercepted and decrypted by someone who are truly dedicated (and funded) to do that.
If two parties want to communicate and value security above convenience then I would recommend One-Time Pads.
Actually a lot of population of Iran is well educated and some what more liberal than a lot of Arab nations.
At least the people or Tehran, and the other larger cities of Iran, have a fairly high educational level. Though the large rural areas of Iran still have a much lower average level of education and standard of living. Consequently the people of Tehran tend to be more more liberal and westernised, while the inhabitants of the districts tend to be more dogmatic in their believes. At least this is the way things have been presented to me; though personally I have not visited Iran to verify.
Agreed. I'd even go farther than that. While I do feel that handwriting with a pen or a pencil is something that should be a part of a general eduction; it's by no means inherently necessary for literacy. Understanding letters, words, sentences and grammar, does not require that you are able to pick up a pen and draw those symbols on a piece of paper. And the idea that a certain style of handwriting is somehow vitally important seems a very quaint notion.
To top that off I would argue that a large part of many newspapers (and news-centric TV channels) have a far greater proportion of material that is speculation, personal opinion, trivia or a rehash such material from earlier. The more fluff you can inject the higher your profit margin as fluff is cheap to produce, while actual serious reporting and researched balanced articles require far more work.
One of the issues, it seems to me, is the simple fact that blogs, forums and websites are proliferating all over the place with varied quality and value. If someone want to read other people's opinions, and comment/engage/debate/rant, there is little shortage of sites you can visit. And some of those blogs, or sites, have a quality of writing that rivals "serious journalists". One could argue that blogs that are not written by accredited journalists are harder to verify when they make a claim of some sort; but from a certain point of view that has always been true; even for providers that are traditionally held to be high status. There are more than a few that have become very cynical regarding mainstream news-reporting as those providers are often very selective in what they report about, how they report it and what they choose to not mention. And their sometimes absurd desire to dichotomise; to divide a subject into two contrasting parts; when reality is often more complex and less clear cut.
I can not predict or foresee how things will develop, but I would be very surprised if journalism disappears all together. However I reckon that writers of fluff and TV-talking heads will find it harder and harder to make a buck over the coming years and decades.
Bah. Three days to respawn? He must've done some serious TKing or something.
Perhaps his mum wouldn't let him log back on until he'd cleaned his room and taken out the trash, or perhaps there were griefers camping his cave until they got bored. Lets not jump to conclusions here.
Small problem with that idea in the physical sciences, a simulated lab isn't much use for hands on experience.
Of course any degree that requires instruction with access to various facilities; labs, operating rooms, a kitchen, or others; will, probably, always need the students to attend a physical location (though I reckon at some point there will be certain things that can be done through VR).
However any study that is entirely academic, say certain fields of math, computer science, social studies, arts, or any field that only requires basic equipment that is available for a reasonable price at a local store of some sort; can be learned through eBooks, Video, Audio, Forums, Interactive Programs, and other forms that can be access by a computer. I would argue that in these cases someone with the motivation to learn can get a grip of a field of study to a sufficient degree that they can use that knowledge in a work related context. It isn't where you learn, but that you learn. A university degree has always just been a piece of paper (or note in a database) that certifies that you know what you should know.
Some jobs no doubt require a higher proficiency in a field than others, but very many jobs only need their new employees to have a basic understanding of the core concepts; enough so that they can be properly re-educated by whatever institution, organization, corporation or etc. that they end up working for. And this of course does not even being to count the people that might for professional, or personal, reasons want to broaden their understanding without actually having a real need for a degree.
While there will no doubt remain a need and desire for Universities, or at least a building or buildings, organized and equipped to educate in a great variance of fields; they are not an absolute requirement for all types of education. Depending of course upon what you define as the goal of an education. If the goal is simply to allow people to learn enough to give them a chance at a career in a field that interests them, then I would argue that attending University in the traditional way is not a absolute necessity. And that there are many with a real motivation and desire for learning, but that for some reason or another do not have the means or the flexibility to attend a brick and mortar institution for a number of years. But that never the less with access to the right educational services could learn and be educated to a sufficient level that they can improve upon their own situation.
You want to expand on that? The only thing I can think of with broader appeal than that, is Pizza.
Good idea. Make it so that in their new game after ten hours of playing they buy you a pizza delivered to your door (or dormitory); now that would broaden their appeal I reckon.
Why does it matter if someone else gets an epic-quality item? Does it somehow strip you of your earned rewards? And why is it so wrong if a 12 year old kid wants to do *exactly that* and take his Sword of OMG to the forest and kill boars? If he's enjoying it, why do you care? How does it affect *you*?
I agree. It would seem that for some waxing their epeen is way more important than actually co-operating with others and having a well run raid. For me getting a raid done fast, with no wipes, unnecessary deaths; while talking trash on vent was always the most enjoyable part. Gear was simply a means to an end; not the end itself. And pretty much without exception the people I talk to agree.
Now personally, as well as two close friends of mine, have been playing wow since the summer of 2005. After about six months of playing the game we started raiding MC, and later on BWL/AQ, then Kara, TK, Black Temple, and etc. Now myself dropped out of raiding after farming Black Temple (stopped playing all together until WOTLK arrived), since returning to the game I haven't really done anything but some 10 man and a few 25 man pugs in this new expansion; mostly I just stick to doing heroics and PvP. However everyone I talk to personally, both my two real life friends who have kept up the hardcore raiding, and those of my in-game friends that have dropped off and returned after prolonged hiatuses agree that the current state of the game is better and more enjoyable. This sentiment is mirrored, with very few exceptions, through the entire guild that I used to raid with. Raiding is more fun, gearing alts for raiding or PvP is less of a chore, the new instances are way better designed, daily quests makes acquiring coinage for repairs/consumables/enchants/gems less of a chore; basically the game feels, for those I have been talking to, more like an actual game. There are less people going emo (which seemed to have happened quite a lot more back when we were raiding 40 man instances and getting the gear you needed for the next step took ages and ages of repeated smacking your head against the wall until you were so full of piss and vinegar people went batshit for no apparent reason.
Obviously the changes to the game leaves some people longing for the good old glory days when men were men and everything was much better; but for the most part my personal experiences indicate a higher enjoyment level, more laughs, with most of the heated debate circling around just how much cooler Chuck Norris is than your mum.
So we can take a herb, run studies and determine an effect. If there is an effect, we can do better tests, and then trials.
When that's done you can dose it, control it, and use it to help people.
If only the health sector was that rationally run. In my country using cannabis based medication were appropriate is bad since it would apparently lead to an increase in recreational drug use among teens.
On the other hand if you want magic rocks, magic touch, any sort of sanctioned happy pills or various forms of medication with opiates; no problem we'll give you that with few, if any, questions asked.
With the Genuine Advantage system you are required to either A) Only drive within the covering range of the Ford Wireless Quality Assurance Network. or B) Buy the Off-Grid license which requires a persistent satellite uplink (only 49.99$ per hour of driving).
Should you go out of range you have to contact Customer Service to have your car moved back into range; 2-6 weeks waiting time; cost varies by district.
One sometimes wonder when they will suggest some sort of DRM device crafted into a persons throat so they can check licensing rights when a person sings.
I might be mistaken, but I seem to recall reading that a large part of the population in India donates their hair to temples/charity once a year; the hair being sold to make expensive wigs for westerners. If human hair can be used in the way suggested here then at least India could potentially access a huge amount of hair without much difficulty. Just a thought.
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Basically smaller, financially weaker nations, either play by the arbitrary rules of the EU of they face restrictions/taxation on trade and other sort of petty punishments. And of course the stronger factions reserve special privileges for themselves; allowing crap like this to happen.
The most disturbing thing about the article linked is that it end with the phrase "And it all began with pond scum."
OS/2 Warp was made at a time when a significant part of those with the knowhow to make and support a evolving OS worked for Microsoft. Not to mention that it is known that Microsoft leveraged their situation, and growing economic capacity, to convince manufactures that adopting their OS was a good idea.
The Linux platform has a growing support base of not insignificant proportions at this point, and the Ubuntu system has proven itself to be quite robust and one of the easier implementations for new users to get a handle on. The capability to get technical help, support, documentation, and whatever else a company might need, is far different today with Ubuntu Linux than what is was for OS2 when it was introduced.
I can not predict how this will turn out in the end, but looking back and using OS2 as an example for how this will develop seems like conjecture.
My advice is just relax and enjoy it or simply find something else to watch.
Indeed. If you like something; you like it. If you don't; you don't. Arguing about details and lore for a TV show, or movie, seems like a waste of time. Of course I can understand that someone with an interest in science will find entertainment including pseudo-scientific explanations off-putting, but that goes for just about everything else. I reckon there are cops that find cop shows ridiculous, and doctors who find hospital shows ludicrous, and so on and so forth. If you enjoy something, good for you, if you don't; there is little to be gained by bashing it online. Unless of course you want to get some pats on the back from people that already agree with you. You might have your preferences, but that is all they are; your preferences.
Because telepathy have a tendency to make your head explode.
More than once I have experienced that the on-board sound chip from Realtek causes the computer crash or have significant slowdowns. Disabling and putting in a budget soundcard fixed it. So I would suggest that disabling various on-board components in turn could uncover the culprit. That being said, identifying hardware problems have always, for me, been a bit hit and/or miss.
Windows Server will now join, trust and replicate a Samba-based Active Directory using Microsoft-native protocols. then blame all problems on Samba/Linux/OpenSource/Liberals
Fixed that for you.
I also wonder how many times you'll be able to download a book you have purchased.
Some Kindle books have secret caps on the number of times you can download them.
Kindle’s DRM.
If these stories are true then the Kindle is, in my eyes, nothing but a rip-off.
86% of Slashdot readers shown to not care about random statistics. 14% of those said to absolutely not give a shit, with 25% just shrugging and moving on to other topics.
I find this lawsuit fairly amusing and hypocritical; since Thompson himself claimed First Amendment protection against his critics, and then when for good measure that the criticism of him violated state religious protection laws since he was motivated by his faith.
Mister Thompson wasn't damaged by "angry postings made by Facebook gamers" he was damaged by all the stupid, unethical (and illegal) crap he did that spawned those posts. This is just a greedy lawyer who got himself disbarred through his own machinations trying to get himself a payout so he can finance his insidious campaign of ignorance and fear. Hope Facebook takes this to court and tear Mister Thompson a proverbial "new one".
You can pull your ass over to answer the phone, it's not that hard to take an extra 5 minutes to get to your destination. You never need to text while driving.
It is essential that I drive above the speed-limit and take any incoming call/text while driving; any stop or slowdown I make cuts into my masturbation time.
Second, (as Dr Strangelove pointed out) a doomsday machine only makes sense as a deterent if both sides know about it. Why wasn't the machine made public earlier when the Soviets thought that the US was about to launch an attack?
I guess because this wasn't exactly a weapon, rather a contingency system ensuring that the weapons the USSR already had (and told the world boldly that they had in massive numbers) would lunch in retaliation regardless of how, when and how massive any American attack would be.
Ground-based sensors would detect that a devastating blow had been struck and a counterattack would be launched.
So technically if someone wanted to deal a massively destructive blow to the US they could just locate one of these "ground-based sensors" inside Russia and create some sort of "devastating blow" to set the entire system off. I guess one should be relieved that certain anti-american groups haven't done so yet.
Vanish is meant to protect communication between two trusted parties, researchers say.
I guess it all comes down to what more important. If you want convenience then you're always limiting your level of security. So far there are very few ways to send encrypted messages over the internet that can not be intercepted and decrypted by someone who are truly dedicated (and funded) to do that.
If two parties want to communicate and value security above convenience then I would recommend One-Time Pads.
Actually a lot of population of Iran is well educated and some what more liberal than a lot of Arab nations.
At least the people or Tehran, and the other larger cities of Iran, have a fairly high educational level. Though the large rural areas of Iran still have a much lower average level of education and standard of living. Consequently the people of Tehran tend to be more more liberal and westernised, while the inhabitants of the districts tend to be more dogmatic in their believes. At least this is the way things have been presented to me; though personally I have not visited Iran to verify.
Agreed. I'd even go farther than that. While I do feel that handwriting with a pen or a pencil is something that should be a part of a general eduction; it's by no means inherently necessary for literacy. Understanding letters, words, sentences and grammar, does not require that you are able to pick up a pen and draw those symbols on a piece of paper. And the idea that a certain style of handwriting is somehow vitally important seems a very quaint notion.
To top that off I would argue that a large part of many newspapers (and news-centric TV channels) have a far greater proportion of material that is speculation, personal opinion, trivia or a rehash such material from earlier. The more fluff you can inject the higher your profit margin as fluff is cheap to produce, while actual serious reporting and researched balanced articles require far more work.
One of the issues, it seems to me, is the simple fact that blogs, forums and websites are proliferating all over the place with varied quality and value. If someone want to read other people's opinions, and comment/engage/debate/rant, there is little shortage of sites you can visit. And some of those blogs, or sites, have a quality of writing that rivals "serious journalists". One could argue that blogs that are not written by accredited journalists are harder to verify when they make a claim of some sort; but from a certain point of view that has always been true; even for providers that are traditionally held to be high status. There are more than a few that have become very cynical regarding mainstream news-reporting as those providers are often very selective in what they report about, how they report it and what they choose to not mention. And their sometimes absurd desire to dichotomise; to divide a subject into two contrasting parts; when reality is often more complex and less clear cut.
I can not predict or foresee how things will develop, but I would be very surprised if journalism disappears all together. However I reckon that writers of fluff and TV-talking heads will find it harder and harder to make a buck over the coming years and decades.
Bah. Three days to respawn? He must've done some serious TKing or something.
Perhaps his mum wouldn't let him log back on until he'd cleaned his room and taken out the trash, or perhaps there were griefers camping his cave until they got bored. Lets not jump to conclusions here.
Small problem with that idea in the physical sciences, a simulated lab isn't much use for hands on experience.
Of course any degree that requires instruction with access to various facilities; labs, operating rooms, a kitchen, or others; will, probably, always need the students to attend a physical location (though I reckon at some point there will be certain things that can be done through VR).
However any study that is entirely academic, say certain fields of math, computer science, social studies, arts, or any field that only requires basic equipment that is available for a reasonable price at a local store of some sort; can be learned through eBooks, Video, Audio, Forums, Interactive Programs, and other forms that can be access by a computer. I would argue that in these cases someone with the motivation to learn can get a grip of a field of study to a sufficient degree that they can use that knowledge in a work related context. It isn't where you learn, but that you learn. A university degree has always just been a piece of paper (or note in a database) that certifies that you know what you should know.
Some jobs no doubt require a higher proficiency in a field than others, but very many jobs only need their new employees to have a basic understanding of the core concepts; enough so that they can be properly re-educated by whatever institution, organization, corporation or etc. that they end up working for. And this of course does not even being to count the people that might for professional, or personal, reasons want to broaden their understanding without actually having a real need for a degree.
While there will no doubt remain a need and desire for Universities, or at least a building or buildings, organized and equipped to educate in a great variance of fields; they are not an absolute requirement for all types of education. Depending of course upon what you define as the goal of an education. If the goal is simply to allow people to learn enough to give them a chance at a career in a field that interests them, then I would argue that attending University in the traditional way is not a absolute necessity. And that there are many with a real motivation and desire for learning, but that for some reason or another do not have the means or the flexibility to attend a brick and mortar institution for a number of years. But that never the less with access to the right educational services could learn and be educated to a sufficient level that they can improve upon their own situation.
You want to expand on that? The only thing I can think of with broader appeal than that, is Pizza.
Good idea. Make it so that in their new game after ten hours of playing they buy you a pizza delivered to your door (or dormitory); now that would broaden their appeal I reckon.
Why does it matter if someone else gets an epic-quality item? Does it somehow strip you of your earned rewards? And why is it so wrong if a 12 year old kid wants to do *exactly that* and take his Sword of OMG to the forest and kill boars? If he's enjoying it, why do you care? How does it affect *you*?
I agree. It would seem that for some waxing their epeen is way more important than actually co-operating with others and having a well run raid. For me getting a raid done fast, with no wipes, unnecessary deaths; while talking trash on vent was always the most enjoyable part. Gear was simply a means to an end; not the end itself. And pretty much without exception the people I talk to agree.
Now personally, as well as two close friends of mine, have been playing wow since the summer of 2005. After about six months of playing the game we started raiding MC, and later on BWL/AQ, then Kara, TK, Black Temple, and etc. Now myself dropped out of raiding after farming Black Temple (stopped playing all together until WOTLK arrived), since returning to the game I haven't really done anything but some 10 man and a few 25 man pugs in this new expansion; mostly I just stick to doing heroics and PvP. However everyone I talk to personally, both my two real life friends who have kept up the hardcore raiding, and those of my in-game friends that have dropped off and returned after prolonged hiatuses agree that the current state of the game is better and more enjoyable. This sentiment is mirrored, with very few exceptions, through the entire guild that I used to raid with. Raiding is more fun, gearing alts for raiding or PvP is less of a chore, the new instances are way better designed, daily quests makes acquiring coinage for repairs/consumables/enchants/gems less of a chore; basically the game feels, for those I have been talking to, more like an actual game. There are less people going emo (which seemed to have happened quite a lot more back when we were raiding 40 man instances and getting the gear you needed for the next step took ages and ages of repeated smacking your head against the wall until you were so full of piss and vinegar people went batshit for no apparent reason.
Obviously the changes to the game leaves some people longing for the good old glory days when men were men and everything was much better; but for the most part my personal experiences indicate a higher enjoyment level, more laughs, with most of the heated debate circling around just how much cooler Chuck Norris is than your mum.
So we can take a herb, run studies and determine an effect. If there is an effect, we can do better tests, and then trials. When that's done you can dose it, control it, and use it to help people.
If only the health sector was that rationally run. In my country using cannabis based medication were appropriate is bad since it would apparently lead to an increase in recreational drug use among teens.
On the other hand if you want magic rocks, magic touch, any sort of sanctioned happy pills or various forms of medication with opiates; no problem we'll give you that with few, if any, questions asked.
With the Genuine Advantage system you are required to either A) Only drive within the covering range of the Ford Wireless Quality Assurance Network. or B) Buy the Off-Grid license which requires a persistent satellite uplink (only 49.99$ per hour of driving).
Should you go out of range you have to contact Customer Service to have your car moved back into range; 2-6 weeks waiting time; cost varies by district.
One sometimes wonder when they will suggest some sort of DRM device crafted into a persons throat so they can check licensing rights when a person sings.
I might be mistaken, but I seem to recall reading that a large part of the population in India donates their hair to temples/charity once a year; the hair being sold to make expensive wigs for westerners. If human hair can be used in the way suggested here then at least India could potentially access a huge amount of hair without much difficulty. Just a thought.